October 17 Birthdays

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Author Profession: Swedish actor, former chemical engineer
Born: 1959-10-17

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Dolph Lundgren

We live in a time when nearly everything can be summed up in ones and zeroes, right? And that causes a certain amount of despair.

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Author Profession: US rapper
Born: 1972-10-17

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Quotes: Eminem

Eminem

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

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Author Profession: World Music award winning Turkish pop singer.
Born: 1972-10-17
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Tarkan

Being brave isn't not being afraid. Being brave is being afraid and going ahead and doing what you have to do.

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Author Profession: US film producer.
Born: 1957-10-17
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Lawrence Bender

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

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Author Profession: Canadian actor
Born: 1948-10-17

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Quotes: Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

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Author Profession: English Actor
Born: 1974-10-17

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Quotes: Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, youll make yourself unhappy, because life doesnt work like that. So much is luck. Its much better to let yourself off, to think, Theres nothing I can do.

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Author Profession: US Celebrity
best known for the "Atkins Nutritional Approach" or "Atkins Diet"
Born: 1930-10-17
Died: 2003-04-17

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Quotes: Robert Atkins

Robert Atkins

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

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Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1948-10-17

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Quotes: George Wendt

George Wendt

I not only get recognizedI get recognized from behind.

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Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1918-10-17
Died: 1987-05-14

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Quotes: Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth

Men go to bed with Gilda, but wake up with me.

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Author Profession: Ecuadorian cartoonist
He is the creator of the television series Beavis and Butt-Head
Born: 1962-10-17

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Quotes: Mike Judge

Mike Judge

I don't think people come home from work thinking, 'I want to be shocked and startled.' You want to check in with your favorite characters, and it's nice knowing they're not going to change that much.

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Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1920-10-17
Died: 1966-07-23

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Quotes: Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

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Author Profession: US comic actor
Born: 1947-10-17

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Quotes: Michael McKean

Michael McKean

When we've done itand this sounds like I'm talking about sex, doesn't it?we've done it every way you can.

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Author Profession: Canadian Actor
Born: 1963-10-17

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Quotes: Norm MacDonald

Norm MacDonald

Comedy is surprises, so if youre intending to make somebody laugh and they dont laugh, thats funny.

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Author Profession: Literature & Fiction, Romance edit data
Born: 1864-10-17
Died: 1943-09-23

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Quotes: Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn

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Author Profession: English Novelist
Born: 1934-10-17

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Quotes: Alan Garner

Alan Garner

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1958-10-17

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Quotes: Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, theres a thousand good ones.

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Author Profession: British Businessman
Born: 1946-10-17

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Quotes: Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

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Author Profession: US Dancer
Born: 1895-10-17
Died: 1958-12-29

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Quotes: Doris Humphrey

Doris Humphrey

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

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Author Profession: Canadian Actress
Born: 1978-10-17

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Quotes: Erin Karpluk

Erin Karpluk

Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, youre coming into a show thats already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on Saving Hope was so welcoming.

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Author Profession: US Actress
Born: 1926-10-17

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Quotes: Julie Adams

Julie Adams

I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, How does he do that? He is not doing anything, and yet everything is there.

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Author Profession: Finnish Celebrity
Born: 1979-10-17

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Quotes: Kimi Raikkonen

Kimi Raikkonen

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

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Author Profession: English Actor
Born: 1985-10-17

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Quotes: Max Irons

Max Irons

Ive always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I dont want to kill people. Id hate to.

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Author Profession: US Author
Born: 1971-10-17

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Quotes: Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

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Author Profession: US Politician
Born: 1864-10-17
Died: 1928-10-30

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Quotes: Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1972-10-17

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Quotes: Wyclef Jean

Wyclef Jean

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

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Author Profession: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Born: 1948-10-17
Died: 2007-09-16

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Quotes: Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.